MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 282, 12 April 1848, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Governorship of Trinidad is vacant by the death of Sir Henry Macleod. Forty-three officers of the 13th Light Dragoons are said to have been compelled to quit the regiment since 1840, in consequence of the extravagant expenditure on the regimental ■mess.

The Siamese Twins. — A recent visitant of the celebrated twins Chang and Eng, who are settled in America, describes them as taking much pleasure in farming, as being fond of hunting, and as living with their wives and little ones, apparently ipaite happy and contented. Their wives are said to be members of the Baptist church, of respectable parents, and the twins occasionally go to church with them. In addition to their native names they have assumed the name of Banker, in honour of their banker of that name in the city of New York. " There goes far more to the composition of an individual character, than of an individual face. It has sometimes happened that the portrait of one person has proved also to

be a good likeness of another. Mr. Hazlitt recognised his own features and expression in one of Michael Angelo's devils. And intfeal life, two faces, even though there be no relationship between the parties, may be all but indistinguishably alike, so that the one shall frequently be accosted for the other ; yet no parity of character can be inferred from this resemblance. Poor Captain Atkins, who was lost in the Defence, off the coast oi J utland, in 1811, had a double of this kind, that was the torment of his life ; for this double was a swindler, who, having discovered the lucky fac-simileship, obtained goods, took up money, and, at last, married a wife in his name. Once when the real Captain Atkins returned from a distant station, this poor woman, who was awaiting him at Plymouth, put off in a boat, boarded the ship as soon as it came to anchor, and ran to welcome him as her husband." — The Doctor by Southey. " Lord Dalmeny, son of the Earl of Rosebery, married, about eighty years ago a widow at Bath, tor her beauty. They went abroad, she sickened, and on her death-bed requested that she might be interred in some particular churchyard, either in Sussex or Suffolk, I forget which. The body was embalmed, but at the custom-house in the port where it landed, the officer suspected smuggling and insisted on opening it. They recognised the features of the wife of their own clergyman, who, having been married to him against her own inclination, had eloped. Both husbands followed the body to the grave. The grandfather of Dr. Smith, of Norwich, knew the Lord."— lbid.